Hedge fund billionaire and rapturous eco-crusader Tom Steyer has fronted a lot of ridiculous attempts to not only thwart the construction of the already-existing Keystone pipeline’s northern extension, which would merely give Canada’s oil sands an efficient connection to our refineries in the Gulf, but to smear everything about the fossil fuel industry, the technology it employs, and the global free market in which it operates. The absurdly worded poll that his NextGen Climate Action group commissioned earlier this year, claiming that the “majority of U.S. voters want to know where the crude oil transported through the Keystone XL pipeline will end up” — as if that’s somehow an indictment of the Keystone XL pipeline, and as if the U.S. doesn’t sell and ship its own petroleum products to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East (which, by the way, it does) — springs immediately to mind. This, however… this, I did not see this coming.

Hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer, a climate change activist and staunch opponent of the prospective 1,179-mile pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to Cushing, Okla., has hired retired Navy SEAL chief David Dave Cooper to assess how vulnerable the Keystone XL might be to deliberate sabotage. In a 14-page report made public today (but redacted to keep it from being a playbook for aspiring terrorists), Cooper concludes that a small group of evildoers could easily cause a catastrophic spill of millions of gallons of diluted bitumen, or tar sands crude, from the Keystone XL. They could do it with as little as four pounds of commercial-grade, improvised explosives.

After unraveling Steyer's associations, investments, and proxies, it has become apparent that Steyer stands to benefit very greatly from the construction of a pipeline from Alberta's oil sands west to BC, where it can be easily exported to Asia.

If the Keystone XL pipeline is built, the western pipeline won't be economically viable, and Steyer will lose a bunch of money, or at least won't be making more.

It's not about "climate change", or "terrorism". It's all about money.

Steyer's money.

Apparently, the $100 million he has committed to Democrats is chump change, by comparison.

“Gee Tom, in that case we should get rid of all pipelines in the U.S., even though we’ve not had any successful terrorist attacks against them? Should we transport more oil by train and truck through neighborhoods where they could have accidents? Would you want that even though there’d be more bottlenecks and shortages? How then would we get oil for our cars, our homes, to transport our food and clothes? What would the children eat? What would grandma use to heat her home? Are you trying to kill kids and grandma? ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL KIDS AND GRANDMA? HUH TOM???!!! YOU’RE A PSYCHO KILLER TOM, YOU PIECE OF GENOCIDAL CRAP!!!!”

The Keystone pipeline will go through some pretty remote and low population areas. I would worry more about trains carrying crude as they go through populated areas and trains are very vulnerable to sabotage.

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